Getting ready for new life / Xanthorrhoea is an Australian native plant genus. Commonly called grass trees, Xanthorrhoea plants are also known as balga grass to the Australian aborigines, which is their word for black boy.
Acrylic & Texture Paste. Painted by Ciska Oct 2007 Sold original / 35.5CM X 45.5CM
Callistemon ‘Candy Pink’. A beautiful bottlebrush with amazing detail when observed closely.
The opening of a flower from a red flowering Gum tree an Australian Native Plant.
This white flowering Eucalypt caught my eye. It was actually in a carpark and our car was parked under it. I love how my interest in photography invokes me to notice these things that others walk on by. It allows me to see the beauty in the world around me.
The glowing golden centre and the radiating violet-blue petals belong to a very fine specimen of Nymphaea violacea (Water Lily), a very common Australian native water plant. The photograph was made as I was sitting on a little jetty over a large pond on the property of a Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club friend at Kundabung, between Kempsey and Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia, on a lovely autumn day. Fuji S9600: RAW, Manual settings of f/6.4 @ 1/1200sec, Manual focus, ISO80, Hand held. / S7RAW & Photoshop CS. Visit the Aussie Wildflower collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more native floral delights. UPDATE: / 21-08-08 / Just sold a matted print to an unknown buyer with taste! Enjoy! WILD AUSSIE LILIES / (Click the links!) Nymphaea violacea / Nymphaea violacea / Nymphoides indica / Tricoryne elatior / Tricoryne elatior / Tricoryne elatior / Burchardia umbellata / Burchardia umbellata / Burchardia umbellata / Sowerbaea juncea / Sowerbaea juncea / Dianella caerula / Dianella caerula / Dianella caerulea / Caesia parviflora var minor / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thysanotus tuberosus / Thysanotus tuberosus / Thysanotus tuberosus / Tripladenia cunninghamii /
Today I had an urge to photograph my favourite spinifex clump. they are one of my favourite indigenous plant :)
Performance Award Winner – Ricoh 8th Worldwide Photo Competition
A native Australian Climbing Sundew (Drosera Macrantha), taken at Mount Barker Summit in the Adelaide Hills.
A silhouette of a native Australian ‘black boy’ (Xanthorrhoea Quadrangulata) at Mount Barker Summit. The Black Boy is for me quite an iconic Australian Native. I have used earthy tones in the background to compliment it, and as a representation of some of the wonderful vibrant earthy colours of OZ.
Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Telopea speciosissima Telopea speciosissima (meaning “very handsome”) – Also known as the “Waratah” is the floral emblem of New South Wales and is one of Australia’s best known and most spectacular native plants. It occurs in a semi-circle around Sydney extending from around Ulladulla in the south to Lake Macquarie in the north and west to the higher parts of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. The family Proteaceae is a very ancient, widespread family occurring in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America and eastern Asia. It contains about 75 genera of which 44 are endemic to Australia. Canon PowerShot A650 IS / 12.1MP – 6x Optical Zoom – 4x Digital Zoom
Pimelea spectabilis is a native West Australian plant which grows to 1.2m tall. Its stems are sticky when young and are covered with 35mm narrow leaves with blue-green underside. The flowers are relatively large, being made up of long slender tubular florets which radiate like a wheel Camera:Olympus FE240 compact, taken on macro setting
This oen is for Dennis. Taken in the Rhododendron Gardens near Olinda Victoria last year, we were fortunate to find the white Waratahs in full bloom Featured in Protaceae Family Group
Melaleuca Conothamnoides – or Purple Pom-Pom Myrtle This is a compact West Australian shrub around 1m high and wide. It has blue-green leaves, differing to the usual Melaleuca leaves It has small rounded bright purply-pink flowers heads which open in Spring. 109 views as at 18.11.09
Pink Eucalypt Featured in Spring Blooms Group
Medium used: Coloured Pencil
Medium used: Coloured pencil
This image captures the opening bud of Corymbia ficifolia ‘Wildfire’, which is a spectacular, dwarf flowering gum tree.
I have this one allready loaded into here, but I have edited the image a bit more to make what I think is a better image.
Eucalyptus kingsmillii or Kingsmill’s Mallee Native Australian tree spread throughout the centre of Western Australia on the sandplains This beautiful tree is not under threat. It can grow to approx. 8m high and has rough flaky bark, the flowers are white, cream, yellow, pink or red and flowers during April to October. Prefers Red or yellow sand and thin soils over sandstone or ironstone. Info: florabase.calm.wa.gov.au Photo taken in Kings Park in Western Australia Finalist in avatar challenge in Blooming Trees Group
It’s Winter in Australia, which means the Wattle is beginning to bloom. In my area we’ll soon be surrounded by a sea of bouncing little balls of yellow…... Did you know : / - Wattle is Australia’s official floral emblem, having adorned our Coat Of Arms since 1912. / - there are around 950 different species of Wattle….. which is why I have no clue as to which one this is! / - On 1 September 1910 the Sydney Morning Herald stated: / “To many Australians the wattle stands for home, country, kindred, sunshine and love; every instinct that the heart most deeply enshrines.”........ nice :) [canon 1000D, canon scanner for texture, PS watercolour] WINNER – Wattle challenge – October 2009
This little pink flower has been lit with a pencil torch. Tetratheca setigera. tThe family is a native plant consisting of 39 species of evergreen shrubs with nodding 4 to 6 petalled flowers, in pink mauve, purple and sometimes white. / Tetratheca Setigera is a shrub found in the SW of Western Australia and has pink petals with a dark centre. Found in the banksia woodlands near Yarloop in Western Australia 131 views as at 14/11/09
Lovely wild red grevillea in the banksia bush near Yarloop between Harvey and Mandurah in Western Australia. Parts of the grevillea appeared almost black and were covering with ants.The flower is underlit by a pencil torch
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